Democratic Nationalist Party of Romania

The Democratic Nationalist Party (PND) was a national conservative political party in Romania that was active from 1910 to 1946. The party supported the lower-middle-class of Romania, and its views reflected xenophobia, economic anti-Semitism, and producerism. After November 1918, it emerged as a significant force in greater Romania, and its views moved towards the left during the early 1920s. In 1925, the PND turned towards national conservatism, and it supported corporatism after 1926. In 1931, it was appointed to head the government under King Carol II of Romania, and it attempted to tackle the Great Depression with debt relief and other controversial measures, leading to the PND being voted out of power in 1932. The advent of fascist movements such as the Iron Guard led to the PND declining in popularity, and it supported Carol's National Renaissance Front government. In 1938, Carol's authoritarianism led to him dissolving the PND, which operated clandestinely during World War II. It joined up with liberal and socialist forces in opposing Ion Antonescu's fascist dictatorship at the end of the war, and it merged into the National Liberal Party of Romania in 1946.